Spring Rubber

Meh, I'm not too excited about shake-ups. I enjoy the stability.

It's time for the annual tradition of Ron Magers anchoring the two Black Friday newscasts solo and standing in a bunch of different places every segment. He started out the newscast standing outside with the people on State Street. Let's see where he goes next!

It's like 2001 all over again!

Ok guys, are you ready for the weirdest thing ever? Well, you guys know that ABC 7 is the master of having different people on different newscasts during the same daypart, and you guys know how Mike Caplan does the 4 PM news while Jerry Taft does everything after that, so maybe this won't come as too much a surprise, but in my opinion, this is even weirder than that... Stacey Baca just announced that Troy will be doing the entire Saturday morning and ALSO the 5 AM hour of the Sunday morning news, and Phil will take over from 6 AM onward. My question is if Troy is gonna do the 5 AM, why not have him do the 6 AM, too, and let Phil get some rest until 8 at least?

Very awkward for the transition to happen on Labor Day. Kinda ruins the moment.

Looks WABC-ish, no?

What color is the ABC logo on the ABC7 logo? I've noticed that the ABC network itself is using different colors based on what the program is. I've seen both red and yellow/orange variants thus far. Do any others exist?

I assume the temporary situation will be Phil Schwarz not getting any sleep on both Saturday AND Sunday.

So wait, do all of the maps during the weather segment live inside of these "boxes" now? I'll have to remember to check out the weather segment at 6 or 10.

Are those ABC 7 logo transitions an in-house job or a sign of a future graphics package?

Maybe it was a social media experiment of, "Hey, let's throw this idea out to the public and see what reaction we get."

I really expected 7 in the Morning to have launched during sweeps. Has it been delayed or cancelled?

Is this rebrand launching today? Thursday? Later?